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Connecting to a Research Data Storage Service share location

Research Data Storage Service provides campus researchers the ability to subscribe to a minimum of one Terabyte (TB) of desktop mountable storage for research purposes. This storage should be used when storing files larger than 15 GB or when using regulated data, such as PHI, PII, etc. This article gives instructions on how to connect to (mount) the storage location to your desktop for various operating systems.

Windows

Connecting to your share

Identify your server:

If you are a member of Feinberg School of Medicine, the address is fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg, but have selected auditing capability, the address is resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg and have no auditing, the address is resfiles.northwestern.edu

Open a Windows Explorer window:

Type \\ followed by you server in the address bar

Pressenter. For example, if you fall into category c. from above, you will type: \\resfiles.northwestern.edu

You will be prompted to authenticate to the server. Use your NetID and password

Once connected, you will see the list of shares on the server. Select your share to copy (and write, if you have the appropriate privileges) files

Mapping your share as a network drive

If you are a member of Feinberg School of Medicine, the address is fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg, but have selected auditing capability, the address is resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg and have no auditing, the address is resfiles.northwestern.edu

Pick a drive letter to use and enter the full path to the share. For example, if you are using drive letter T: and mounting the share called northwesternit_research from the server resfiles, you would type in the Folder: \\resfiles.northwestern.edu\northwesternit_research

Check "Reconnect at login" if you would like the drive to mount at login.

If you are on a non-domain joined laptop, you may need to specify the domain as mentioned earlier by clicking "Connect using a different user name" and enter the following:

Username: ADS\netid

Password: netid password

Mac OSX

Connecting to your share

From the Mac OS X Finder, on the top Menu Bar selectGo -> Connect to Server

Identify your server:

If you are a member of Feinberg School of Medicine, the address is fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg, but have selected auditing capability, the address is resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg and have no auditing, the address is resfiles.northwestern.edu

Enter in the server indicated for your storage allocation, clickConnect

Enter your NetID and password to authenticate

Select the share you would like to mount, clickOK. This share will be given based on your research group name given

To disconnect, eject the drive by dragging the desktop icon to the trash or click the eject symbol next to the drive in your finder window

Mounting your share automatically at login

Go to System Preferences -> Users & Groups

Select your user account from the list on the left

Click the Login Items tab on the right side of the window. This will show you all of the apps, scripts, documents, and user services that are configured to launch automatically when your user account logs in

To add your network drive to this list, simply locate the network drive’s icon on your Desktop, and then drag and drop it into the Login Items list

Linux

Connecting to your share

Identify your server:

If you are a member of Feinberg School of Medicine, the address is fsmresfiles.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg, but have selected auditing capability, the address is resfilesaudit.northwestern.edu

If you are not in Feinberg and have no auditing, the address is resfiles.northwestern.edu

Mounting the share using the Ubuntu GUI:

If using Ubuntu GUI – From the desktop, you may also SMB to the share via the default FILE MANAGER

SelectConnect to Server and then input your Research Data Storage share (smb://server_name/share_name)

-o : are options passed to mount command, in this example I passed two options. First argument is NetID and second argument is password (//server_name/share_name or/mnt/mountpoint Linux mount point (to access share after mounting))